Description: "J. Crétineau-Joly : L'Eglise Romaine en Face de la Révolution. Ouvrage composé sur des documents inédits et orné de portraits dessinés par Staal". Complete set in 2 volumes. Illustrated with engraved plates. Paris, Henri Plon, 1860, 22 x 15 cm., 512 + 540 pp. Period half leather, gilt to spines, marbled endpapers. Slight wear to spines else in very good condition. During the Revolution, the Church was stripped of its land and other properties, clerical privileges were eliminated, the Church was reorganized, the process of selecting upper clergy through election was instituted and the clergy became state employees, ties with Rome were severed, and the Church became secondary to-and reliant on-the secular state. The Church was split between those who gave their allegiance to the new Republic and those who refused to do so, and subsequent violence between revolutionaries and clergy members saw widespread bloodshed and the destruction of Catholic sites. Over the coming century, the Church and its supporters allied with the political faction of monarchists who sought the return of absolute monarchy, and made various attempts to reassert its former power, for example, by lobbying to once again become the state religion. Napoléon Bonaparte oversaw the reconciliation of the Church under the Concordat of 1801, which established the Catholic Church as the French Church, albeit unofficially. Nonetheless, France was on a trajectory towards expansive secularism, and with the 1905 Law on the Separation of Church and State all ties between Rome and the French government were cut.
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Binding: Leather
Language: French
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Subject: History
Topic: European
Region: Europe
Year Printed: 1860
